Introduction to Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technology

Introduction to Microsoft Sharepoint Portal Technology

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This series of articles on SharePoint is intended to help you understand the capabilities of the product, as well as provide tips and tricks, development ideas, information from Microsoft, information from the community, and perhaps some samples.

It will include how-to articles that can help you with your deployments; ways to customize a page; deployment scenarios; and content management.

An Introduction to Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server
Paul Schaeflein begins his series with a look at the history, features, and applications of Microsoft's SharePoint portal server.

How To Use Site Definitions in SharePoint
Robert Bogue illuminates the primary reasons that you should be creating site definitions -- and some reasons why you shouldn’t. [more Microsoft SharePoint]

Managing the Code When Customizing SharePoint
Companies that are customizing Microsoft SharePoint have to manage the code deployment process. Robert Bogue discusses some strategies for tackling the problem.

Drawing a Target on Your Users with SharePoint
One of the challenges with most portals, including intranets, is maintaining relevancy of the information that the user sees and interacts with.

SharePoint Site Collection Governance
Robert Bogue takes you through a process of evaluating the needs of your business units and how to design a SharePoint strategy. [more Microsoft Sharepoint]

Managing the SharePoint Learning Curve
It’s a powerful program, but the amount of knowledge needed to master it can overwhelm any developer or manager.

Understanding SharePoint Branding Options
Our expert tears apart options including site definitions, site templates, and themes and discusses what you need to use to modify the appearance of pages.

Understanding the SharePoint, ASP.NET Relationship
While there's a great deal of power that SharePoint offers it doesn't mean that you won't be writing in ASP.NET any longer.

When You Need SharePoint Designer
Robert Bogue walks you through Microsoft SharePoint Designer’s features and how you should (and should not) use them.

Microsoft Adds SharePoint to the Hosting Party
Microsoft is taking yet another step toward its vision of a software-plus-services world.

SharePoint Tutorial: Document Library Send To Feature
Amanda Murphy examines a useful feature of a SharePoint document library in SharePoint 2007 -- the ability to send a document to another location.

SharePoint Localization Tips and Tricks
Robert Bogue rounds up the scattered bits of information about localization in Microsoft SharePoint, provides some tips and tricks, and leaves you with a working approach to language and formatting.

SharePoint Governance, Part 2
SharePoint offers an immense amount of power for an organization, but adoption of the technology requires that you manage risk, development, and other aspects. In Part 2, we focus on operational concerns, training, improving search, and more.

SharePoint Governance, Part 1
SharePoint offers an immense amount of power for an organization, but adoption of the technology requires that you manage risk, cost, development, access, and more.

Getting Started with Windows SharePoint Services
Take a look at the basic installation of a SharePoint corporate intranet and some basic customization options.

Building a Searchable Phone Directory with Windows SharePoint Services
How to build a searchable telephone directory for your SharePoint intranet, complete with partial name search.

Integrating a Legacy Web Application in SharePoint
Learn how to integrate a legacy Web application inside a SharePoint site.

Enabling Users to Maintain SharePoint Content
An introduction to managing SharePoint content with the Content Editor Web Part.

Customizing the Quick Launch in a WSS Team Site
Paul provides a solution to automate the linking of documents in a Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) document library to the Quick Launch navigation feature.

Using a Custom Web Page Template for Easy Content Entry
Paul continues to showcase content entry solutions that help end-users post content to a SharePoint site with minimal technical assistance.

Harnessing Properties in SharePoint Search
Robert teaches you how SharePoint uses document library fields to create properties that are searchable and how to enable searching on those properties.

Reading and Writing RSS with SharePoint
Takes a look at some easy to install and use solutions for including RSS content in SharePoint sites.

Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 1
Paul walks readers through the process of developing a custom Web Part for Sharepoint.

A Sensible Framework for SharePoint Intranet Navigation
Although the fundamental concepts behind a sensible navigation framework are simple, they are not well understood by developers or designers.

Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 2
Continue exploring the process of developing a custom Web Part for Sharepoint.

Developing a Custom Web Part, Part 3
How to save the data entered on the user input form and then how to render the output of the Web Part.

Choosing Between a User Control or Web Part for SharePoint
Most people believe that you have to write Web Parts if you want to do work with SharePoint. This is only partially true. But in trying to decide whether to employ user controls or Web Parts, you must first understand the strengths and weaknesses of each approach.

How SharePoint and SOA Fit Together
Like peanut butter and jelly, Robert Bogue says the combination of Microsoft SharePoint and Service Oriented Architecture is one that's bound to stick around because SharePoint puts a face on your infrastructure.

SharePoint Gets Search Analytics
The next version of SharePoint Search will include reports that allow you to see the effectiveness of the searches users are executing.

SharePoint 2007 Tutorial: Sorting Out Site Collections
After hearing the confusion in the SharePoint community, Amanda Murphy explains the difference between site collections and sites in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007.

For more information on the difference between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) and SharePoint Portal Server, please see: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;830320.

If you are following along with the series on Microsoft SharePoint and have any questions or comments, make sure you post them in the Intranet Journal Discussion Forum, where the author and hundreds of fellow readers can answer any question you have or dispense advice.

Enjoy the series and good luck.

More SharePoint content from the JupiterWeb network:

SharePoint and Web Services (from Developer.com)
Exploit SharePoint List Definitions to Maximize Your Brand (from DevX)
Master Advanced List Editing in SharePoint (from DevX)
Troubleshooting Web Parts and Deployment (from DevX.com)
Performance Monitoring in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 (from 15Seconds.com)
SharePoint Ghosted and Unghosted Pages (from CodeGuru)
Use the Power of Reflection to Dynamically Set SharePoint Web Part Properties (from DevX)
Monitoring SharePoint Usage through an ASP.NET Web Application (from 15Seconds.com)
Retrieving SharePoint Site Information in an ASP.NET Web Application (from 15Seconds.com)
Using SharePoint Portal Server to Index Your Custom Application (from DevX)
SharePoint Site Definitions: Why You Need Them and How to Use Them (from DevX)
Build a Custom SharePoint Web Service for Your InfoPath 2003 Documents (from Developer.com)
Connecting Web Parts in SharePoint Portal Server 2003, Part 1 (from Intranet Journal)
Developing SharePoint Web Parts with the ICellProvider Interface (from Intranet Journal)
Developing Web Parts with ICellConsumer Interface (from Intranet Journal)

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